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If you left-click on the box where the image should be, you should be able to open the image in a new window. Why it works that way is beyond me, but it's definitely worth doing.

I said he's an ass wipe, not a Glass Wipe!

"The more time you give this process, the bigger the rough diamond starts to grow," Willy says. After the new diamond cools off, the crystal is ground and cut to shape, and sometimes engraved with a laser. Sounds a little too much like life.

I've long wondered when high quality CGI would become cheap enough to be used in porn, allowing any fantasies imaginable to be rendered realistically and without any actors being put in harm's way. Of course, there are laws restricting some content from being created even digitally. (wide opening here for AdamSmith - oops, I mean opportunity for input - oh, never mind, he'll shove his oar in somehow ) For example, there are age-related laws for drawings and computer images, so I guess there could be laws written to prevent condom-free imagery even if no humans are at risk or even involved. I've often imagined Tom-of-Finland-type characters, portrayed realistically and in color and 3D, creating any fantasy scene we can think of. Wonder how long till we see it?

Saw it last week. Although it's a three hour movie, it's very fast paced and seemed like only two hours and forty-five minutes.

I let slip a little moue, rather than a severe frown, when I saw the Elgin Marbles. Like the King Tut burial treasures, it would be so much more moving to see them in place where they came from. Of course, they may have been ruined had they stayed where they were. And not as many folks would have seen them. But I can understand those who want to see them back at the Parthenon.

Sounds like she's in the zone. Here's a little history on how the brand came to be and here's a bit on Kraft's efforts to market it as cheese. A bookend to Sir Henry's wheeze: 'Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.

Well, you could always get some milk, water, milkfat, whey, milk protein concentrate, whey protein concentrate, sodium phosphate, salt, calcium phosphate, lactic acid, sorbic acid, sodium alginate, sodium citrate, enzymes, apocarotenal, annatto, and cheese culture and make your own.

I expect he has some rich neighbors with pull. Wouldn't surprise me to see him move one day soon, perhaps somewhere he'd fit in better.

Hito wonders if the consommé could use another splash of sherry

I recall a classmate who said sitting down to pee got his dick all wet. He was very popular.

Honestly! Every time I start enjoying one of my little vices, somebody comes along and makes it legal. They did it with corn-holing, they did it with smut, and now they're doing it with weed. Having to sneak around a little has always been part of the thrill. Next they'll be telling us that indecent exposure isn't really so bad after all. Flash Travel™ - ride with us and leave your trench coat at home!

Compared with BoyToy, getting into NSA was a piece of cake!

I believe they refer to English muffins as 'footmen'.

According to this article, there are three primary reasons why it doesn't launch here in September as it does in the U. K. 1. It would be up against the major networks' Fall schedules and might get lost in the noise. 2. The cast would have a harder time with promotional appearances in two countries at once. (This is the only one of the reasons I guessed.) 3. The U. S. version is slightly different from the U. K. version and it would be more expensive to have two editing rooms going at once. Despite all that, the producers apparently would prefer a Fall launch in the U. S. but PBS and Masterpiece Theater execs call the shots. While they don't yet see any compelling reason to change, they are thinking about it.

I think you folks might be referring to mimeograph machines. They used a stencil to let ink through to the paper. A ditto machine transferred wax onto a master which was then pressed against a blank page onto which some of the wax was transferred. I think I remember seeing some of these and that the paper itself was sort of shiny. I'm not proud of this, but I actually looked up these early machines when this thread was first posted. It was a slow night. Also gave time to reflect on the effort necessary to reach other folks in those days. You really had to think about exactly what you wanted to say, and then hope your typing skills were up to getting it right the first time. On the other hand, it was a bunch easier than in the really old days.

Same here, and I've tried the cookie clearing routine. What's weird is that, even though some pages show me logged in, the main Forums page doesn't. Unless I really am. This seems to be one of those devilish login problems that often besets the site and I'm sure OZ will eventually move it to the front burner.

Thanks! Inspired me to find a favorite New Yorker cartoon.

Really! How about a few auditions?

Didn't mean to imply that all criminals are mentally ill. I was referring to those on death row. Although they've cleared the bar of legal insanity, I think there's got to be something unhealthy in the brains of these folks. If so, killing them for something they were possibly born with doesn't seem right, and I'll offer it up as one more argument against the death penalty. And thanks for starting this thread. Keeping the issue in play is very valuable.

As a learned man once observed: Quite the antithesis ! If you follow the link in my post above, you'll find it was MsGuy himself who self-deprecatingly observed, 'Being ill informed never stopped any of us from staking out a position before. Sure as hell never stopped me! Personally, I consider him one of the most informed posters on this, or any, message board I've been privileged to infest. When he opines, I pay close attention.

Glad to see the trend away from support for the death penalty. I've been against capital punishment since the first time I really thought about it. Even earlier, if you count those Sunday School lessons about 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'. I take it to heart - not just for others, but for myself. Whether the other person is a child in Afghanistan or an inmate on death row, I am not going to kill him, and I'm not going to ask my government to do it either. It doesn't have anything to do with who the other person is. It has to do with who I am. That gut reaction aside, further thought over the years has led to a bunch of other reasons why I believe capital punishment is wrong. Not least is a belief that most of those who land on death row are mentally ill. You don't have to be a shrink to suspect that Manson and Ramirez aren't playing with a full deck. . . . MsGuy has rubbed shoulders with others who should not be on the loose and I'll wager that they were likewise patently nuts. I suspect the mental illness that lands these folks on death row has to do with empathy, specifically a lack thereof. I believe some folks were just born without the cerebral wiring to ever feel concern for another living creature. They didn't ask to be born that way and we, as a society, were not able to identify them and prevent them from harming others. One might argue that they should have been locked away before they harmed others, rather than after, as it was only a matter of time before they caused misery and death. This is a tougher question than I can answer, but I am sure that killing a mental defective is not the way we want to go as a society. That said, until we can rewire the brains of these folks, it would be hard to justify ever letting them run loose among the general populace. Other folks had their ability to empathize damaged by drugs or by those around them - parents, maybe, fellow gang members, or perhaps a platoon leader who told them it was OK to kill any Afghani who looked at them funny. I believe we promote a significant amount of mental illness in the military and it can manifest itself later in civilian life with deadly results. If an ex-soldier with severe PTSD ends up on death row, shouldn't those who helped inculcate it share much of the responsibility? I believe that many of those who developed normal empathic responses as children, but were damaged later, do have the ability to be made whole and returned to society. Believe me, I don't have the answers to even these few questions and I know I don't have all the questions either. It does amaze me though that, with the billions of dollars we spend on death penalty cases each year, we spend so little time and money understanding the mental health part of the problem and which people we can help and how best to do it. It's pretty clear, though, that what we're doing now is more likely to exacerbate the problem than it is to solve it. PS: Many thanks to MsGuy who reminds us that we don't have to be well informed in order to stake out a position.

#1: Desperately wanting to believe, young Stanley starts wondering if this really is Dr. Livingstone. #2: Madeline entertains her first paying client. As he starts to tell her a little about himself, She's glad she asked for the money up front.

(I'll see if I can sneak this one in while Lucky's in Thailand.)

I'm with Charlie and EXPAT. A roller bag that fits in the overhead compartment will get me anywhere I need to go for as long as I like. It helps that I avoid cold places, as shorts, sandals and polo shirts take up very little room. And I like that my stuff stays with me at all times. A journey starts with just one step. It's nicer when I do not schlep.